Monday, April 8, 1935
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fThe United States and Japan are at war again only this
jj time, it's economic war and neither side is going to resort
to Kamikaze strategy.
The U.S. has had a trade deficit in the billions for some time
with Japan, Auto imports and electronic equipment are among
C.2 largest selling items from Japan.
y!?st week'Japan announced that it would continue to enforce
erf i'rt quotas cn cars, but boosted tho quota by 25 percent. This
raws outraged the Reagan Administration as well as Congress.
TU Scnateapprcved 824 a resolution encouraging tho administra
tion to do anything it can to have the quota decreased or to have
Esean had ofTcred to open U.S. markets for the Japanese in
hopes that the Japanese would reciprocate. No such luck.
Increasing trade deficits hive Reagin and Congress worried.
Imports threaten U.S. jobs ar.d industry. Time reports that the
foreign trade deficit was 11.4 percent in February, the biggest in
months. Japanese products comprise $4.2 billion of the total. The
total trade deficit may reach $140 billion in 1985, which is a 15
percent increase from last year.
Japan's small cars are still better than their closest American
competitors. The American car makers are importing parts and
technology from Japan for their compacts and soma go as far as
just importing the cars from Japan and putting new names on
them.
Opening cur markets would probably cause the automobile
industry to redouble its efforts to improve mileage and peror
xnance cf small cars. Opening our markets would probably also
cost the economy some jobs.
However, if Japan would reciprocate, new jobs in ether
industries would-be created, and the trade deficit could be
trimmed.'
' '. Reagan should lean hard op the Japanese far epen markets. As '
it stands nov .Tokyo enjoys lenient trad policy fci a country
hungry for quality compacts -while the U.S. cannot sell its
. technology to; Japanese consumers, ,
Gcciaews fcsrwMeo
nd now,, the good news from the Land of the Eising Sun:
Nippon has agreed to stop hunting whales. The Associated
Press reported Saturday that Japan bowed to U.S. pressure
to stop hunting whales in 1888 to support a worldwide moratorium
on whalinc
. The U.S. had threatened to reduce Japan's fishing quota in U.S.
waters by 50 percent if Japan did not agree to end whaling by
April 1.
Norway and the Soviet Union are the only two countries left
opposing the ban.
- Whaling has been obsolete for some time. Most materials
gleaned torn whales can be obtained from oilier sources for less
money. Continued whaling threatens the existence cf many
species cf the huge, intelligent ocean mammab. '
Japan "reserved the right to withdraw the withdrawal" pending
a U.S. Appeals court-decision, AP reported ;-.-'
A U.S. law, the Packwccd-M&gnuson Amendment, calls for
sanctions against countries that do net conform to the 1882
International Whaling Commission ban. The appeals court blocked
. the sanctions agsinst Japan until violations could be certified. If
the ruling goes egsinst the U.S., Japan may decide against the ban,
The world can hardly af&rd to lose a crs&ura'as magnificent
and mysterious as the whale. People b not r.eed the. whale for
survival anywhere but whales depend cn people to guarantee'
their survival.
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mistas Tutmessness
'ashinfton loathes tha word lie.
ikl nnt.eA ' it 'two?? Isw"ifialnis
such as ."misspoke," "political
rhetoric" or, in congressional testimony,
"to the best cf my recollection." In that
spirit, let me propose a new word for a
statement that is - ahem at variance
with the facts: a Nicaragua.
by any means a democracy and it miy be
heading toward a communist dicta
. inescapable esters cf Marxism to be
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A recent "Nicaragua" was the presi
dent's charge that the Sandinistas were
"using Stalin's tactic of gulag reloca
tion . . ." Stalin? The Gulag? What's this
man talking about? The Sandinistas are
moving people out of combat areas. Thai
may or may not be a nice thing to do, but it
is a long way from Josef Stalin and his
' gakg the Soviet prison system idelibly
chronicled by Alexander Sobihenitsyn.
Similnly, the president stretched things
a lot when he called the cor.tras our
brothers" and "the moral equivalent cf the
Founding Fathsrs." A whopper cf a "Nic
aragua" there. Unless WasMngton, Jeffer
son and the venerable Franklin did some
raping c,i the vay to Valley Forge, the
ccmiras are something kss than their
moial equh'alent. In fact, they are a mostly
pedant army created not by Nicsraguan
dissidents, but by the CIA, and whose
signSUcsnt leaders Fie former cSlcers cf
the brutsl Nations! Guard.
sled tssertisn that the Sandinista R
regime is ruthless and tyrannical. It is not
but it is net there ytt not by a long shot.
In fact, cciapared to El Salvador, Nicaragua
has an admirable record cn human rights.
Use Sandini3te9 do not drag people out cf
their homes and decapitate them in
gullies. .
Yet another "Nicaragua" is the canard .
that Nicaragua p:c:3 a miiitary threat to
its neighbors. In feet, Nicaragua's army cf
40,CG0 is smaller than El Salvador's and
not significantly larger if tha 20,000-raan
civilian militia is included. It has no air
force worthy cf the name and its tanks,
Soviet-built T-543 and 55s, are 25 to S3
years old sitting ducks against modem
anti-tsrJs weap;rj or the respectable air
forces cf Honduras and El Salvador. More
over, the Sandinistas must knowvhat even
a feint toward a neighboring sUte would
bring the wrath cf Reagan torn on them.
Talk about making his day!
So what's going on? Why is the president
(and his CkiMe . McCarthy of a vice
president) so exaggerating the faults and
the capabilities cf the Sandinistas and the
attributes and vulnerabilities of their
enemies? Why is the administration's
rhetoric so out cf proportion to the facts?
In other words, why so many "Nicar aguas"
about Mcgraos?
The answer is Cuba. It's the monkey cn
the administration's back. The creation cf .
a communist state in cur hemisphere is to
Eeagan's brand of conservatism what the
treaty of Versailles was to a generation cf
uenaans a sellout and a humiliation.
f ssd by grdns in literacy or health,
ons cl peaceful intent, promises
of an eventual democracy and the seem
ingly limitless ability cf some Americans,
particularly liberals, to be taken in by all
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Eeagaii will not permit it to happen again,
not an allow-what he thinks is the
Yea may want to arue with some or all
cf thai, but it is a legitimate enough
theory. The trouble' is, though, it's not
what the Freshest tails the American
people. Inste&d, in the manner of a parent
talking to a cM'd, he dispenses with
ambiguities mi sbtkties arid even with
tho fti'r3 tcr.:--. In rhetoric, he has
crr:-r-.l a h'lrr:i t-..t is already a
II Klcr:"3 :it Ij. Cuba on its own
accord, 'ill i:: ' e it c:.3. He makes war
t:zr,zi it, fTc il f 3 nilltanze and then
ck:s thit v:ry r irl-ibn a3 evidence
of crjrc:" ' "3 j j. I!3 5. Lints mines in
the haxtr.r, s.'r.::.;z cn IJ and then
cries tstaiitarLT.Lxn r.htn the Sandinistas
respond with a state cf emergency.
Maybe in the end the president will be
.able to vindicate his oira exaggerations! j
Given Ms adlcxs and the proclivities of
the Ssndlxtisto, KcrS2a migt well end
ua beku aacthc? Oibx And then we can
all wonder wfca's t3 liana the United
States for its hesti'lty or the Sandinistas
In the mesntfoss, Nicsrjgua is a long
way from fcsccsir.j, & Cuba To declare
othensise tmdszz$ policy options and
hastens fcal when a 11 3 finally becomes
the trcth.
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fZ he Sjsvicts have Kiurdsarcd sa Araeri-
can o3cc? but have premised not to
a grusgs about It, and we have
promised to work with thca to prevent
:d:a." Dctsr.te is back and
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remembers Peter Fechter? He was shot in
18S2 while trying to climb the Berlin Wall
and was left, ilk Nicholson,- to bleed,
while persons eager to help were kept
away at ganpefcit Tods?, the Wall is a
s.a.eKsfthe-art killing maeMne with auto
mated firing devices. Behind the Wall is a
tiBBassy. Ken
he Soviet emuira reo!rs iw.
Tlw Soviets fesve been tatiinsLtaly i
vobed in tiEks scares cf thou.22ds of
but gsersllj hs.ve used
who wm Kmtastr Amy i,:. Arthur D.
McMson, Jr., a racsth from new? Who
me alter an
oScer led a defection from a coKey
Kirucreed by Soviet trccp, the Saiiet
a physito with Aide Msdlcale Lite?
nonatoid representatives cf SkbinM
vatch: "rt.tt j , . .
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retell 1 3 v-;!3 : : t ' ;! -: -z. A Fdif h pnesi
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ptr, i3 t-y r-'-rfan secret
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